Overview The integration of land administration processes and the collaboration of land agencies are considered essential for the effective delivery of developable land for housing production. However, in most countries, housing and land management policies are usually split between multiple government agencies. The background literature suggests that the activities of governments’ agencies tha...

Lifelong Learning (LLL) is the key concept of European Union (EU) and European Commission (EC) recommends Promoting Access and Participation in Lifelong Learning for All starting with 1996 European year of LLL and continuing with Feira (2000) and Lisbon (2000) European Council proceedings. With these principles in mind, the project Lifelong Learning for Active Citizenship and Capacity Building ...

In this article, we study isomorphisms between simple current extensions of a simple VOA. For example, we classify the isomorphism classes of simple current extensions of the VOAs V + √ 2E8 and V + Λ16 , where Λ16 is the Barnes-Wall lattice of rank 16. Moreover, we consider the same simple current extension and describe the normalizer of the abelian automorphism group associated with this exten...

The central government of the People’s Republic of China enacted a fiscal reform known as the “Province-Managing-County” (PMC) reform in the early 2000s. This reform eliminated the prefecture city government as the intermediate layer between the province and the county. We apply a difference-in-difference method using a panel data set of 263 cities nationwide over the period of 1999-2011 to exa...

Mathematical modelling provides an essential tool for understanding aeolian transport of dust and sand, its spatial and temporal dynamics, and its role in the earth system. As much of the crucial action takes place at or just above land surfaces, adequate representation of land-surface processes is essential. In this paper, we review progress in aeolian transport modelling during last two decad...

We consider the effects of land for housing on the growth process within an overlapping generations model. Our original interest was to enquire whether the introduction of land into a growth model might account for a “virtuous” circle in which saving-up for land (or housing) generates growth and higher land prices, generating further increases in saving, and so on. Such an account is sometimes ...

The referees’ comments are in bold face. Response to Referee 2. We also thank this referee for his/her comments and for pointing out the aerosol channel effect. “I wonder how typical is the problem, what is the rejection rate of the state-ofthe art interference filters. Also how OOB affects other channels used for aerosol optical depth determination and what blocking is sufficient in that case....

• The growing mismatch between skills and supply in a changing world. • By 2020, manufacturing will only occupy 10-20% of the workforce. • In the UK and elsewhere, meanwhile, the high skills sector is growing . • Participation in lifelong learning (LLL) is very variable; in the UK about half participate, but these tend to be the better educated or trained. • Unemployment and participation in LL...

We use unique store-specific data for a major UK supermarket chain to estimate the impact of planning, which restricts both the size and location of stores, on store output. Using the quasi-natural experiment of the variation in planning policies between England and other UK countries and a difference-in-difference approach, we isolate the impact of Town Centre First (TCF) policies. We find tha...

We present a family of conformal field theories (or candidates for CFTs) that is build on extremal partition functions. Spectra of these theories can be decomposed into the irreducible representations of the Fischer-Griess Monster sporadic group. Interesting periodicities in the coefficients of extremal partition functions are observed and interpreted as a possible extension of Monster moonshin...